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Description

A Dakota, possibly Yanktonai, beaded and fringed buckskin rifle case collected in Sisseton, South Dakota and made in the last quarter of the 19th century. The case is composed of a long, attenuating leather sleeve with beaded ornaments in a bilaterally symmetrical geometric pattern at either end in blue, yellow and red beads. The case has long decorative leather fringe from the bottom tip to about halfway up the body of the case, and again at the opening.